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From: wine@homxa.UUCP (J.GORDON)
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Subject: Re: Liability Lawsuits Getting Out of Hand
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Another suggestion to cut down on litigation:

How about having a separate determination of awards and penalties.
In this way, if an individual is suing a corporation, there could
be a large penalty against the corporation, but a smaller award to the
plaintiff.  The lawyers for the plaintiff can only be payed out of the
reward, so this would cut down on legal fees.  The extra cash can be
put into a fund to be used to pay for cases where the penalty is
smaller than the reward.